Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) Subject to this part, where the body of a deceased person is in a place other than a hospital, a senior available next of kin of the deceased person may, by signed writing, authorise the removal of tissue from the body of the deceased person--
(a) for the purpose of the transplantation of the tissue to the body of a living person; or
(b) for the purpose of using the tissue for other therapeutic purposes or for other medical or scientific purposes;
or for any of those purposes.
(2) Where the senior available next of kin of the deceased person has reason to believe that--
(a) the deceased person had, during his or her lifetime, expressed an objection to the removal of tissue from his or her body and had not withdrawn that objection; or
(b) another next of kin of the same or a higher order of the classes in section 4, definition senior available next of kin, paragraph (a)(i) to (iv) or (b)(i) to (iv) has an objection to the removal of tissue from the body of the deceased person;
the senior available next of kin shall not, under subsection (1), authorise the removal of tissue from the body of the deceased person.
(3) Where a deceased person, during his or her lifetime, by signed writing consented to the removal after death of tissue from his or her body for any of the purposes referred to in subsection (1) and the consent had not been revoked by the deceased person, the removal of tissue from the body of the deceased person in accordance with the consent for any of those purposes is hereby authorised.